Timeshare Resale Blog

A good article on the changes in the timeshare industry and the advantages of timeshare resales.

It is not too early to plan for New Years Eve.  Many timeshare owners consider New Years Eve a premium timeshare week.  You could buy a new years week timeshare resales and lock in years of celebration at fun locations like, Las Vegas, Tahoe, Hawaii, Orlando and more.

 

Time to think about those special Christmas presents.  Why not give a gift that keeps on giving year after year?  Timeshare Resales are an excellent way to save money on your future vacations and create those cherished family memories.  You could relax in the tropics of Hawaii, ski the Rockies or golf in the Desert every year.

With the end of the year coming, in addition to the Holidays, it is a good time to do some tax planning.  You might be thinking about donating your timeshare to charity for a tax deduction.  Timeshare Today is running a series of articles on donating your timeshare to charity and they say ” … if you want to maximize your proceeds… it will almost never make sense to donate a timeshare week. “  Any evaluation of the value of your timeshare should include the timeshare resale market.

According to Smart Money, Timeshares are one of the Top 5 things never to buy new.  

When you buy a timeshare directly from a developer, in most cases, over 50 percent of the purchase price is to cover the cost of sales & marketing. Why pay retail when you can acquire the same timeshare resale for a fraction of the developer’s price?

You can accelerate the break-even point considerably by buying a timeshare on the resale market, where you can often find one for half the retail cost charged by the developer.

Let somebody else pay retail for a timeshare. Resale buyers, in most cases, can get the same benefits as everyone else, and the original buyer takes the depreciation.

One of the challenges for first time timeshare buyers is to find unbiased information about purchasing timeshares.  Timeshare owners may not be totally unbiased but they can be another useful source of information.
According to Timesharing Today, timeshare owners enjoy their timeshare vacations so much that 68% of them own more than one week.  The article goes on to state that most of those buyers of second and third weeks buy timeshare resales.
The lesson for first time buyers is, do not pay retail. When you purchase directly from the developer, in most cases, the cost of sales and marketing is over 40% of the purchase price.  Buy timeshare resales and save.

We aren’t the only ones who know about the advantages of buying timeshare resales. The following excerpt from Kiplinger’s provides additional information about the resale market:
“You can accelerate the break-even point considerably by buying a timeshare on the resale market, where you can often find one for half the price charged by a developer.”
 “Resale is the only way to go, according to Jim Breslin of Naperville, Ill. He and his wife, Pam, and their three children enjoy two one-week timeshares. Their most recent purchase was a Marriott timeshare in Orlando, which Jim bought on the resale market for $9,400, 55% of the Marriott $17,199 asking price.”
 “Let somebody else pay retail,” Breslin says. “You can get the same benefits as everyone else, and the original buyer takes the depreciation.”

The weather is beautiful and the kids are back in school.  Now is the perfect time for a timeshare getaway with that special someone.  Many resorts are in their shoulder season where timeshare resales are a great bargain.  Some timeshare programs offer the ability to split a week of usage into individual days or a 4 day midweek and 3 day weekend split.  Contact Hotel Timeshare Resales for more information on how to get the most out of your timeshare resale.

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